| Re: Praise for Gfortran (finally) |
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Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: Arjen MarkusArjen Markus Date: Sep 18, 2008 23:48
On 18 sep, 23:41, steven.bossc...@ gmail.com wrote: >
> You have to realize that not a single one of the gfortran developers
> (current and past, including g95) have a computer science background.
> At least, not as far as I know.
>
> All gfortran developers are physicists, engineers, mathematicians,
> etc., in their Real Life, just like most people that follow this
> newsgroup. These developers started as Fortran users, with no more
> knowledge of compiler construction than most people here.
>
I definitely qualify as such: I am a physicist by training and
even though day job concerns the development and maintaince of
programs in a number of languages, physics and engineering (most
notably the numerical modelling of the phenomena) remain my
prime interest.
Regards,
Arjen
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